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Spiderwort   Listen
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Spiderwort  n.  (Bot.) An American endogenous plant (Tradescantia Virginica), with long linear leaves and ephemeral blue flowers. The name is sometimes extended to other species of the same genus.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... Passion-Flowers were conspicuous on the bare white sand that checkered the ground, displaying their emblematic forms on their low repent vines, and reminding the wanderer in these almost trackless solitudes of that Faith which was founded on humility and crowned with martyrdom. Here, too, the Spiderwort of our gardens, in a meeker form of beauty and with a paler radiance, luxuriated under the protection of the wood. Already I observed the predominance of luxuriant vines, indicating our nearness to the tropic, wreathed gayly over the tall and branchless trunks of the trees: some, like ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 8, No. 46, August, 1861 • Various



Words linked to "Spiderwort" :   Paradisea liliastrum, spiderwort family, St.-Bruno's-lily, herbaceous plant, dayflower, Commelinaceae, family Commelinaceae



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